Benediction Scriptures 1. Iterations of I Interminable emphasis Ephemeral to fade My gratification Lurking in the blood, like plague Eerie hauntings recrudesce Bedeviled sanctify To perish unexplained Left to rot, iterations of - I Reduced to ashes, scattered dust I will betray all of your trust I am the knife that stabbed your back And broke you on the fucking rack Iconoclast to tear those sails Hammer cruciFICTION nails Born unholy, hybridize Seven sins upheld with pride Portent returns Defy intrusion unconcerned Existence a vital lust In opulence I leave you crusts - I Reduced to ashes, scattered dust I will betray all of your trust I am the knife that stabbed your back And broke you on the fucking rack Kneel once more, the Death Church temple Your immolation a poor example Play the victim, feed that fire Immortal, I'm the purifier Your flesh, is weak And mentally it's looking bleak Your flesh, is weak And mentally it's looking bleak Shattered trust from my misdeed Delude yourself, let your flesh bleed - Bleed! Perpetuate my dynasty Assassination's reign Chaperone to torment Herald of pain Future's past, temporal peace Never got your sweet release Repossession, battle cry You've always seen that I am I I am the thorn within your side The hydra you can not abide Here to plunder your last breath I am the portent, I am death 2. Scriptures in Scarlet One incantation summons From Kandarian scrolls Out of isolation's plane Begin devouring whole Scarlet script recite Invoking acolytes Possession will reprise Deadite colonise Iron blood scent Recalls lament Feral bloodbath Reduced to ash Reanimate deceased The dead to be unleashed Incorporeal portal Obsidian plane bespeak Diabolis antiquity Malignant threshold breached Scarlet script recite Invoking acolytes Possession will reprise Deadite colonise Revive and enslave Beyond the grave This mortal coil Now under soil Iniquitous goal To swallow your soul Swallow this! Scriptures in Scarlet Deception opaque Withhold the invocation Or attend to that which wakes Undead mechanisms Push the aesthetic Hail to the King, baby With Chainsaw and Boomstick Scarlet script recite Invoke upon this night Possession will reprise Deadite colonise Feral bloodbath Reduced to ash Opening maw Heralds the war Reanimate deceased The Evil Dead unleashed Unleashed! 3. The Crooked Man An errant brain in overdrive I could suffocate alone This mortal seam is crooked now Identity a disfigured drone Abandon it beyond Reality that breeds Serpentine is spawned The Crooked Man, a legend that bleeds! Regenerate the deviant Or leave myself for dead A Black Flame now to light my way So I can burn all the bridges ahead The sinister baroque Turmoil left to seethe Wrought asunder, head to hip Yet the Crooked Man, the legend that breathes That's me! A broken spirit healed uneven Two halves malaligned Mental overlord committing treason To the darkened depths I'm now consigned The Crooked Man soon reigning free Such dreams to dread arise Hellbent evolution A different man alive Cognate execution Sinuous past has cracked Lines on show are token Unstable mind released Imperfection broken The Crooked Man reborn Rambling and warped Berserk and deranged My tortuous facade A personality exchanged Never lie to myself Limit that distinction I'm yet the Crooked Man From now until extinction Extinction! 4. Stormcrow Many are its names A tempest squall to blind Borne on vapid wings Moulder of death inclined Herald of disaster Oncoming grief bestowed Exalt triumphant The rise of the Stormcrow No one sheltered from its wrath From paupers to the kings Rancid crest unfurled Stormcrow spreads its wings Spreads it's wings Final hour strikes this flight of dread Extolling doom Precursor to behold ruin To the grave, from the womb When the thunder rages Crowing in the night Yield to its attrition For its might is right Might is right Last frozen dawn on life's plateau Screaming through the driven snow Stormcrow! Stormcrow! Black prophet foreshadows Your intended gloom A knell to chime a solemn stroke Prepare the tomb Murder of Stormcrows Corvus carrion breath Black wings envelop Dark carriage to your death 5. Progenitors of a New Paradigm Progenitors awaken New paradigm now to behold Purebred creations Fetid DNA evolving old A higher class of villain Anti-heroes obliterate Future incarnations rise To exterminate The Hierarchy - Infection prime Progenitors of a new Paradigm One driven obsession To subjugate An empire to build A regime spawned a potentate Abandoning emotions Faceless drones deploy No resistance Exterminate, annihilate, destroy The Hierarchy - Infection prime Progenitors of a new Paradigm Recreate the species To stand alone Now to face the bronze To regain their throne Progenitors awaken! Progenitors - Obliteration! Testimony awakens Conflict has its crimes Raging across history War's aftermath in time One vile supremacy Lost acts of attrition Strategists eternal The science of the mission The Hierarchy - Infection prime Progenitors of a new Paradigm The alien elite Outright manipulations So viciously you're obsolete Total extermination Progenitors awaken! Progenitors - Obliteration! Obliteration 6. Rabid Carnality The moon demands the blood This desire, slake its thirst Under lunar loyalty It's my progeny, my world A damnable life and death Wretched curse appeased Consuming hearts, hot and raw Worship the disease The underdog genealogy Know nothing of my deeds Cavalier, man of my word But by the moon I'll feed A damnable eternal life Preservation's creed Lunatic with sickening lust Rhapsodical force feed Terminology's submission: Behemoth Stalking through the dark No conscience for my crimes Worshipping the covert To hunt again a thousand times A damnable life and death Wretched curse appeased Consuming hearts, hot and raw You'll worship my disease My disease Diagnosis acquisition: Lykaen 7. --- Disk Two --- 8. In Our Hands, the Scars Corruption and disfiguration Those serpentine debauched In retrogressive torment Claw at the scabbed Gordian knot Blistering skin, burns from within Cremate and char Composite death, draw your last breath In our hands, the scars In the factor of decomposition Lies salvation for the dead The stench of memories remain A gaunt tenuous thread Arising flame, of a violent bane The morning star With the drawing of blood, unleash the flood In our hands, the scars Unity of one Twin bastard son In our hands, the scars Unity of one Twin bastard son In our hands, the scars In our hands, the scars The mind conspires to rot in fury Plague on the denizen When the intellect grinds to a halt Set ablaze the tyrant time and again Fire up the forge, as leeches gorge Like dying stars Suture the skin, lock them within In our hands, the scars Unity of one Twin bastard son In our hands, the scars Unity of one Twin bastard son In our hands, the scars In our hands, the scars 9. Tear Off These Wings Blind mouthpiece chants words to betray I inherit angels' wings, pulverized and decayed Condemn swine to drown in misery I never asked for this Atavistic haunting dreams, burn At the sake of bliss Fools begging for their plight Never break their chains Crusaders for a lie engorged Upon these rotten remains Tear off these fucking wings For piety is worthless Shattered - self-righteous to impale Reclaim - once stolen power regain They'll call for glorious war - our saviour fell The Adversary bete noire rules in Hell Indomitable There is no fear, there is only will Never kneel - meet executioners as one Emperors lie weeping in the dust Banish me and I'll always return Defame me - unbloodied, unbowed, I'll watch you burn Agonize me My will shall never break We are legion We are the sea in which you'll drown Eternal Predominance is reigning down Down Down Down Down Down 10. Embrace the Kill No more fear… Embrace the kill! A monument to flaying bodies Restrains shattered minds Perversity symbolic murder Intellect of evil so refined No one left to bury bodies Madness in the burning fields of hate Embrace the kill! Scarce removed from burning witches Atrocities I shall collate Flames that mourn the death of reason Remorseless inhuman race No seven sins to condemn us Wrath, Pride, Envy, Gluttony, Greed, Sloth And howl for Lust Am I not human? Human animal's thirsts and drives? Pause to savour this only life A prelude to the nightmare ride Unconcerned with sanctimony Truth is a stark blackened tongue Masquerade hostility The dead men you are down among 11. Neverwhen Vast tracts of isolation Weaponizing time Laid to waste and conquered Neverwhen live and/or die States of flux Lambasted to the core Finality's insight A Neverwhen of war Paradox is tearing Time and again Engines of war that drive The Neverwhen Darkest hour before the dawn Arachnid degradations A Neverwhen of weaponry Quantum-esque creations Outside reality Locked out time technology Phasing throughout existence In evolution's reticence Paradox is tearing Time and again Engines of war that drive The Neverwhen Within the heart of carnage Knows Neverwhen to feed Mass potential, resurrection To rise again and bleed Controlling reality Neverwhen's mentality Existing in the now and then Forevermore the Neverwhen Paradox is tearing Time and again Engines of war that drive The Neverwhen The Neverwhen 12. The Blight at the End Decimate spurious idols Screaming in demise Apocryphal apocalypse Lords of the deep arise From within the chasm Crawling from the gorge Arising out of darkness The fires of evil forged All-seeing eyes left unsighted No Rubicons to now transcend Aimlessly groping through darkness The blight at the end Tunnel vision dwindles Perception fades to grey Afterimage of what was lost To ocular decay All-seeing eyes left unsighted No Rubicons to now transcend Aimlessly groping through darkness The blight at the end In your shattered sanity, Old Ones arise! The planet bathes in death In reversal of life's light No strength within the dark Covert forces bleak foresight Mesmeric chants of supplication Leaves forlorn slaves enrapt Open wide the Old One's gate Human minds are snapped Minds attuned to worship Now kneel in slavery Doctrines of the Great Old Ones The rituals of R'lyeh 13. We Are Legion On the night of twelve, all Devils drawn The prophecy intoned Adamantine gates pitched wide Heralds return to the throne Cursed god-adorers deny the beast in man Tooth and claw Of Hell possessed, alien elite Legion in arms to war - War! Vulpine serpents machinate Aggrandize alacrity Self-idolators, paragons De facto diversity We are Legion We are the horde Our own gods The overlords We are Legion We are the horde Our own gods The overlords We are Legion, we are the horde Myriad countless divisions Stand our ground as one Regimental throng of force Battalions that won Doubt will grant mental release Not truth to set you free Don't deny the inner beast Unleash Gerasene The Legion of the beast Welcome to our feast The ritual begins We are Legion, we are kin Open wide history's vault Herd culture cast away Regenerated gestalt We are not blind as they say Wolfpacks hunting loyally Cerberus Hellhounds We are Legion, many We are Legion crowned The Legion of the beast Welcome to our feast The ritual begins We are Legion, we are kin The ritual begins, we are Legion, we are kin Legion! "Which way is he, in the name of sanctity? If all the Devils of Hell be drawn in little And Legion Himself possessed him. Yet, I'll speak to him." (Shakespeare's Twelfth Night, Act 3 Scene 4.)